SITTING

This time of year makes me a little crazy. I’m never quite sure I’ll actually survive. Little League, chess tournaments, Destination Imagination competitions and school concerts for R-boy. Softball, the spring musical, band concerts and choir concerts for R-girl. Both are preparing for their piano recital, all of us are trying to keep up with regular-life things (like laundry?) and none of us have any time to just sit.

Actually, I take that back. All I did today was sit. Ok, so there’s something to be said for that. I sat almost all day.

I sat at the state chess tournament for 5 hours, cheering on R-boy, who earned a bronze medal.

I sat at the nail salon for an hour or two, cheering on R-girl, who had a very hard, way-too-grown-up day yesterday, and deserved a real grown-up treat for how amazingly she handled herself – so I treated her to a pedicure date.

I sat at the baseball field for a few hours, cheering on R-boy some more (from the car – sorry R-boy – because it was freezing).

And finally, I sat on my bed with R-kids and we laughed until we almost cried watching America’s Funniest Videos on the DVR.

A walk might have been nice today, but it just wasn’t on the calendar.

Oh! And that reminds me what WAS on the calendar: Neighbor Day. Well, I’m all about giving myself grace these days, and since my entire day was spent sitting away from home, I’m going to count:
– sitting at the chess tourney with fellow hometowners (neighbors, right?)
– sitting at the Little League field with more hometowners
– and all the every-day-is-neighbor-day interactions I will be doing in the days ahead.

Oh yeah. There was something else on my internal calendar today, the one that remembers things that happened on this day, in the past… It’s a really, really sucky thing to remember, so I’m trying not to. Trying to focus on the things that were un-sucky today.

Hope you had some really un-sucky things today, and some time to sit too.

by julie rybarczyk